Office Location: 319 Allen
Office Phone: (919) 681-7610
Email Address: jtetel@duke.edu

Office Hours:

Spring 2013
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00pm

Education:

Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Specialties:

Linguistics

Julie Tetel Andresen writes in the field of linguistic historiography, focusing on French, German, and American theories of language from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. She is the author of Linguistics in America 1769-1924: A Critical History (Routledge, 1990, paperback edition 1996). She is currently writing a manuscript entitled Observing Linguistics to be finished in 2004. She served for five years as the Director of the Duke Univeristy-University of Bucharest, Romania Faculty Exchange. Between 1985 and 1997 she published sixteen historical novels with mass-market publishers. In 1997 she founded her own publishing company, with two imprints: Generation Books (non-fiction) and Madeira Books (fiction).

See article from Duke Magazine 25th Anniversary Issue

Tetel Andresen, Julie. 2010. Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics. In Douglas A. Kibee, (ed.), Chomskyan (R)evolutions. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 445-471.

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. with Phillip M. Carter. Languages of the World. An Introduction through Culture and Cognition. Wiley-Blackwell.  2014.
2.  Linguistics and Evolution. A Developmental Systems Theory Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2013.  [author's comments]
3.  Toward a history of American Linguistics.  Language 86.1 (Spring, 2010).  [abs]
4. "Historiography's contribution to theoretical linguistics." Chomskyan Evolutions and Revolutions: Essays in Honor of E.F.K. Koerner. Ed. Douglas Kibbee. John Benjamins, January, 2010. 443-469.  [abs]
5.  William Dwight Whitney in Perspective.  Metascience (Winter, 2006).